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Drink Recipes - Champagne/Wine

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  • 1½ ounces absinthe
  • 4 ounces champagne


This cocktail was created by the famous literary artist Ernest Hemingway and, in his own words from his recipe in a 1935 celebrity cocktail book, the best way to make this cocktail is as follows:

“Pour one jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass. Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to five of these slowly.”

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